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SPAN 2700: Introduction to Latin American Culture

This guide contains links to databases and resources that will help you complete your group project and final paper.

Establish Context: Scholarly Articles

You can use Summon to search for scholarly articles. Follow these steps:

1.  Search for your topic, including the country name.

2.  Apply two facets to find a scholarly, online article:

  • Items with full-text online
  • Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review

VIDEO EXAMPLE: scholarly articles published since 2009

NOTE: Even after you limit your results to "scholarly," you must be sure to evaluate sources you want to use and make sure the sources you select match your instructor's expectations.

Establish Context: NGOs

Find background information about your news story published by a Non-Government Organization (NGO). You can either search Google with the acronym NGO, the name of the country, and your news item.  Look for results from URLs that contain .org 

Sample search in Google: NGO Brazil "Belo Monte"

Questions? Ask a librarian